1983-D Halves

[bottlecap]

Anyone ever notice how on the 1983 Kennedy Halves the mint mark seems to vary from coin to coin as far as it's location? I found one yesterday where the "D" was actually really close to the "9", after inspecting some other 83 coins I noticed several more where the "D" was not centered correctly. Is this common? Thanks.

 

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[bottlecap]

Here is what I am talking about.

 

[enamel7]

The mint marks were punched by hand into each die during that time. That's why the location varies.

 

[huntsman53]

The mint marks were punched by hand into each die during that time. That's why the location varies.

Yep! Could have been a bad day for the Mint Worker tasked with manually punching the Mint marks into the Dies (i.e. Monday morning blues, ticked-off, sick or hung-over). Seeing double doesn't help and probably accounts for many of the RPM (Re-Punched Mint Mark) Varieties.


Frank

 

[TypeCoin971793]

Yep! Could have been a bad day for the Mint Worker tasked with manually punching the Mint marks into the Dies (i.e. Monday morning blues, ticked-off, sick or hung-over). Seeing double doesn't help and probably accounts for many of the RPM (Re-Punched Mint Mark) Varieties.


Frank

That explains everything...

 

[huntsman53]

That explains everything...

Just about everything but the total DA! LOL!!


Frank

 

[bottlecap]

Makes sense, I had no idea. Ugh, just went through a box of halves and found NOTHING. I swear I never find anything when I get coins with the Dunbar wrapper. Thinking about switching to quarters, would like to do dimes but in my short career I have already seen the coin machines count my dimes as cents.